[K12OSN] 8 Minutes to Open Open Office 2

[Eric Feldhusen]

It almost sounds more like the library "prelinking" isn't happening. 
Try running the following commands from the command line on the server 
when it's not in general use.

touch /var/lib/misc/prelink.force

/etc/cron.daily/prelink


Petre Scheie wrote:
> Ok, here's a strange bit of info, perhaps worthless: I installed 4.4.1, 
> complete with OOo 2, on a new server a few weeks ago.  Server is Athlon 
> 64 with 1GB RAM, serving 3-5 clients.  In the lab, before rolling it out 
> to production, I clicked on OOo and it took about 30 seconds to load, 
> worse than the 4.2.1 with OOo 1.1.4 that had been on the machine.  What 
> a disappointment, since the whole reason I went to 4.4.1 was to get OOo 
> 2.  Tried it a several more times, hoping to build up the cache, but to 
> no avail. Logging in at the server and loading it made no difference for 
> the clients.  Depressed, I went to bed for the night.  The next day, I 
> tried it again from a client: it loaded in 2 seconds!  It's been snappy 
> ever since.  I've had a few reboots since then and even after that it 
> still loads in less than 5 seconds.
> 
> I have no idea what the initial problem was, nor do I know what fixed 
> it. Disk issue? I've got just a single IDE disk in the server. But 
> whatever it was, I can see how 30 clients hitting it simultaneously 
> might drag out to eight minutes.
> 
> Petre
> 
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 13:56, R. Scott Belford wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It takes 8 minutes, total, for a class of 30 to launch Open Office.  
>>> So, class goes like this, 'Welcome class, please lauch OO, and let's 
>>> then take a 10 minute break.'
>>
>>
>> Does it help if one client or the console has loaded it before the
>> others start? 
> 
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